February 23, 20196 yr the last one is definitely the weakest one for me, even the first lines, seem like a Dido parody song
February 23, 20196 yr Author She posted the album's tracklist a few days ago on Instagram: 1. Hurricanes 2. Give You Up 3. Hell After This 4. You Don't Need a God 5. Take You Home 6. Some Kind of Love 7. Still On My Mind 8. Mad Love 9. Walking By 10. Friends 11. Chances 12. Have to Stay
February 26, 20196 yr From Music Week: Hitmakers: The songwriting secrets behind Dido's Thank You By James Hanley | February 26th 2019 Thank You featured on the soundtrack to the 1998 flick Sliding Doors prior to being sampled on Eminem’s megahit Stan, finally becoming a smash in its own right in 2001. Here, Dido recalls how it all came to pass... It was around the time I was having panic attacks and my friend Paulie – Paul Herman – who’s fantastic and is still a mate now, came round to cheer me up. We were singing and playing, and we started doing that song [Thank You]. Later on that evening I was in the bath and I was writing down lyrics on this little bit of paper, which I’ve still got. All of my songs have light and dark, that’s sort of the point – they’re never out and out happy or out and out sad – so I made the verses about a not so great day. I wrote it so quickly, in about five minutes. I had so much to say musically and there is nothing better than when a song isn’t there in the morning and then is there in the afternoon. It’s hard to explain, but it was really fun to sing so we recorded it and put it down as a demo. Whenever I sing my songs it always takes me back to the room that I wrote them in. Thank You was written in my basement flat along with Slide, Here With Me and all those songs [from debut album No Angel] and I remember the room had green stripy wallpaper. It’s funny, it’s etched into my brain because I basically would just stare at this wallpaper and write. Thank You was on a cassette that went around a few people and I think that’s how [then Arista Records president] Clive Davis heard it. Back in those days people just passed stuff to each other, you had a cassette and people would go, ‘Listen to this’, so you never knew who was listening to your music. I remember being in Tesco in Hammersmith – this is well before No Angel came out – and I got a call saying Thank You was going to be used in a film called Sliding Doors. They were like, ‘Is that OK?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah cool, that’s fine. I’ve never had a song be used in a film. How did they even hear it?’ So somebody had obviously passed it on. Anyway, it gets used in Sliding Doors, I go to the cinema with my mates and we were like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe my song is in here!’ But then the story of how Stan came about is that Mark [James, producer] The 45 King, who did songs like Jay-Z’s Hard Knock Life and a load of other great hip-hop tracks, happened to be watching TV while he was doing his accounts one day and the Sliding Doors advert kept playing. He sampled it off the advert for the movie and sent it to Eminem for the backing track, who then listened to it in his car. What I love about that song is that it literally goes on a little journey. The beauty of putting music out is that once you’ve done your thing, you don’t know what’s going to happen after that and then it comes back to you with a different story. Here With Me was the first single, that was the one they were working on at radio for a really long time, and then Thank You was the second. That song is magic. It’s lovely to perform live, it resonates nicely at shows and always turns into a big singalong. There’s just a lightness to it. I sang it at a mate’s wedding and I’ve had so many letters from people who it has meant something to, it’s amazing when you hear those stories. Writer’s Notes Publisher Warner/Chappell Writers Dido, Paul Herman Release Date 12.12.00 Record label Arista Total UK sales (OCC) 329,821
February 26, 20196 yr I love Thank You so much. Such a relatable and chilled song and she sounds beautiful on it.
February 28, 20196 yr Hurricanes acoustic <3 I wish this had been properly pushed last year WLlcIa-9if4
February 28, 20196 yr Author On her Instagram account, she will now post a snippet of all her songs every day, today it's "Hell After This" and it sounds brilliant. :wub:
March 5, 20196 yr She’s on Sunday Brunch this weekend - should give the album a boost and whatever she performs will likely go Top 40 on iTunes.
March 5, 20196 yr I’m so pumped she’s doing lots of promo. Can’t believe I’ll have the album on Friday, and a signed one at that.
March 6, 20196 yr Author In terms of promo, since I don't live in England, I feel that she hasn't promoted as much for her lead single? And I am talking about the lead single in particular. The album should go to Top 5.
March 6, 20196 yr In terms of promo, since I don't live in England, I feel that she hasn't promoted as much for her lead single? And I am talking about the lead single in particular. The album should go to Top 5. She’s throwing the promo into the album. She knows she can’t shift singles. She’s just much more present than she was in the last two eras.
March 8, 20196 yr She's performing on Jonathan Ross tomorrow night. She's on Zoe Ball's breakfast show on Radio 2 this morning and is on The One Show at some point next week. Looking forward to hearing the album now!
March 8, 20196 yr I love Thank You so much. Such a relatable and chilled song and she sounds beautiful on it. I love it too. I can easily say I much prefer it to 'White Flag' tbh (which I do like, but yeah), it's probably my favourite of the big singles. No Angel is my favourite Dido album. I'm excited to sit down for 45 minutes to listen to the new one soon.
March 8, 20196 yr Cannot wait to hear this later today :wub: I’ve deliberately not listened to anything aside from Give You Up, Friends and Hurricanes so that I had more to look forward to on the day of release. She’s #2 on iTunes Album Chart only behind Sigrid who’s another new release.
March 8, 20196 yr Have to Stay as album closer is stunning such a lovely song and a sweet tribute to her son. Hell After This, You Don’t Need A God and Take You Home are the holy trinity. Gonna listen again tonight but I love it. There’s no bad tracks and it’s been worth the long wait! Really hope this at least goes top ten. She’s now #1 on iTunes UK! Edited March 8, 20196 yr by Jordan Lee
March 8, 20196 yr Author According to her facebook page, her album is No.1 on iTunes in two dozens countries.
March 8, 20196 yr iTunes sales don't count for too much but it is a positive indication. Dido will be heavily a physical seller.
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